The world is a big dog town

Glen 2022-03-22 09:01:38

If killing is also a form of redemption, how can we escape Dogtown?
Hitler said that the purpose of killing the Jews was to optimize the race. It sounds very scary, but when I think about it, I have never thought of a similar idea in my mind. Many times I see a certain type of people who will have the idea of ​​killing them all. I think that only if these people are dead, will human beings continue to evolve. Face the problem with no fear. It seems that many countries do not have the death penalty. I think this is too bastard. Some people should be killed, they must. But the killing, in the end, is the redemption of these people themselves or the redemption of other people living in the world. Killing criminals and killing people of bad breeds don't sound like the same thing. There must be some people who say that there are people with bad breeds, and even if there are, they are not committing crimes. So what we have to do is wait for the people who might have committed the crime to commit the crime and then execute it. Does this give them a chance? It's all human nature. At the end of the film, when I saw those people were killed, without sympathy and entanglement, I felt the thrill.
People are like this, always complaining about society and human nature, but everyone is an individual who constitutes a society, and also has the dark side of that human nature. No matter where we flee, we still live in dog towns, because we are dogs ourselves.

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  • Narrator: How could she ever hate them for what was at bottom merely their weakness? She would probably have done things like those that had befallen her if she had lived in one of these houses. To measure them by her own yardstick, as her father put it. Would she not, in all honesty, have done the same as Chuck and Vera and Ben and Mrs Henson and Tom and all these people in their houses? Grace paused and as she did, the clouds scattered and let the moonlight through, and Dogville underwent another of those little changes of light. It was as if the light previously so merciful and faint finally refused to cover up for the town any longer. Suddenly, you could no longer imagine a berry that would appear one day on a gooseberry bush, but only see the thorn that was there right now. The light now penetrated every unevenness and flaw in the buildings and in the people. And all of a sudden, she knew the answer to her question all too well. If she had acted like them, she could not have defended a single one of her actions and could not have condemned them harshly enough. It was as if her sorrow and pain finally assumed their rightful place. No. What they had done was not good enough. And if one had the power to put it to rights, it was one's duty to do so - for the sake of other towns, for the sake of humanity and not least, for the sake of the human being that was Grace herself.

  • Narrator: [as McKay explores even further with his hand] It was not Grace's pride that kept her going during the days when fall came and the trees were losing their leaves, but more of a trance like state that descends on animals whose lives are threatened - a state in which the body reacts mechanically in a low tough gear, without too much painful reflection. Like a patient passively letting his disease hold sway.